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US Central Command Gives Major Update On Incident With Missing Navy SEALs
Daily Caller ^ | January 21, 2024 | HAILEY GOMEZ

Posted on 01/21/2024 6:16:30 PM PST by packagingguy

The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Sunday the death of two Navy SEALs who went missing off the coast of Somalia, according to a press release.

News broke Jan. 13 that two SEALs went missing Jan. 11 after a mission to seize a sailboat — called a dhow — loaded with parts for Iranian medium-range ballistic missiles went wrong. Since the incident, officials had been searching for the two SEALs for 10 days. CENTCOM has stated in a press release, however, that while they have not located the bodies, their status has now been “changed to deceased.”

“We regret to announce that after a 10-day exhaustive search, our two missing U.S. Navy SEALs have not been located and their status has been changed to deceased. The search and rescue operation for the two Navy SEALs reported missing during the boarding of an illicit dhow carrying Iranian advanced conventional weapons Jan. 11 concluded and we are now conducting recovery operations,” CENTCOM stated.

During the attempt to board the ship from a small operations combat craft, a swell had caught one of the SEALs and pulled him underwater, with the second jumping in to attempt to save him, according to the press statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: missing; presumeddeceased; seals
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1 posted on 01/21/2024 6:16:30 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

why wouldn’t they be considered captured??


2 posted on 01/21/2024 6:18:07 PM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: packagingguy

The news just broke and hour ago.

Rest In Peace.


3 posted on 01/21/2024 6:18:09 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: spacejunkie2001

It said they were swept up in an ocean swell. Apparently it was nature and the ocean that killed them.


4 posted on 01/21/2024 6:19:28 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

I don’t believe sh*t out of our government


5 posted on 01/21/2024 6:20:02 PM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: spacejunkie2001

Who knows?


6 posted on 01/21/2024 6:21:47 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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exactly


7 posted on 01/21/2024 6:23:55 PM PST by spacejunkie2001
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Because they probably died of drowning or exposure.


8 posted on 01/21/2024 6:25:53 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: spacejunkie2001

They know they are lost. To delay the announcement would delay insurance pay to their families.


9 posted on 01/21/2024 6:26:08 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: packagingguy

Wasted by a government too pussified to stop ships like this with the 5 inch deck gun.


10 posted on 01/21/2024 6:29:42 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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To: packagingguy

May they both Rest in Eternal Peace.


11 posted on 01/21/2024 6:29:50 PM PST by MarineMom613 (RIP Sandra Sue, my fur baby 12/31/1999 /2010 - See you on the other side!)
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To: spacejunkie2001

The Biden administration has had a history of lying to us.


12 posted on 01/21/2024 6:34:58 PM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: DesertRhino

Don’t you think it’s a good idea to verify they are carrying arms before blasting them?


13 posted on 01/21/2024 6:36:31 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: spacejunkie2001
why wouldn’t they be considered captured??

I don't understand- why would they be considered captured? They went overboard into the water and were never seen again at least 12 nautical miles from land ("international waters").

Who captured them?
14 posted on 01/21/2024 6:36:55 PM PST by verum ago (I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
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To: packagingguy

This story doesn’t make sense to me.
The boat the SEALs took out was just manned by two SEALs?
One story said they boarded the dhow and detained 12 men.
It also said they sank the dhow.


15 posted on 01/21/2024 6:42:10 PM PST by EEGator
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Regardless of that, we still owe our guys a little respect.

The Sailor’s 23rd Psalm

The Lord is my pilot, I shall not drift.
He guides me across the dark waters.
He steers me through deep channels.
He keeps my log.
Yea, though I sail ‘mid the thunders
and tempest of life,
I shall dread no anger, for He is with me;
His love and His care, shelter me.
He prepares a quiet harbor before me.
He anoints the waves with oil.
My ship rides calmly.
Surely sunlight and starlight
shall guide me on the voyage I take,
And I will rest in the heaven’s port forever.

Amen.


16 posted on 01/21/2024 6:46:54 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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As a merchant mariner and rescue diver I am not really buying this.

A "swell" took out a USN SEAL as he was attempting to board a boat?

...And two lives, the lives of two capital swimmers and operators, were lost on the surface?

And there's a mind-bogglingly massive search radius on what MUST have been a pinpoint target?

I hear Carter: "There is a deeper failure than incomplete success..."

...And I am not buying it.

FJB


17 posted on 01/21/2024 6:52:33 PM PST by golux
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It was also WARM water so no chance of hypothermia and surely they would have a beacon on them so why the need to search 21,000 square miles.

We’ve all been lied to by the Feds so much. In my life, the Warren Commission put me on guard, then the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, then more recently the weapons of Mass destruction in IRAG.....to name just a few lies.

It’s simply impossible to believe anything the government says anymore.


18 posted on 01/21/2024 6:52:33 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: EEGator
This story doesn’t make sense to me. The boat the SEALs took out was just manned by two SEALs? One story said they boarded the dhow and detained 12 men. It also said they sank the dhow.

It's a crap story. Here's a better one.

Short version: a SEAL fell off the assault boat, and another went in the water after him to attempt rescue, while the boat continued on the mission. The dhow and its weapons were seized, and the dhow eventually sunk (it's unclear when). After the seizure of the dhow, the rest of the units in the area began a search for the two men in the water, but it was unsuccessful. (A note: the article states this all took place in 8-12 ft seas at night, without lighting)
19 posted on 01/21/2024 6:52:46 PM PST by verum ago (I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
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To: EEGator
The boat the SEALs took out was just manned by two SEALs?

NO. It doesn't say THAT at all.

It says: During the attempt to board the ship from a small operations combat craft, a swell had caught one of the SEALs and pulled him underwater, with the second jumping in to attempt to save him, according to the press statement.

It doesn't say how many others were on the "small operations combat craft", but these vessels usually carry from 6-12 men.


20 posted on 01/21/2024 6:53:09 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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